Broadcom moved the objective posts in its unfriendly takeover offer for Qualcomm, declaring on Tuesday that it was presently looking for just a larger part of the chip creator’s board situates in one month from now’s investor vote and bringing up issues about the eventual fate of the arrangement.

Broadcom said that it would now seek after the race of six candidates it had advanced, instead of the full 11 it had initially named.

Regardless of whether the move will be sufficient to propel the arrangement despite Qualcomm’s warmed protection from a takeover is hazy. Qualcomm investors vote on the board on March 6. The chip organization a week ago rejected Broadcom’s most recent takeover offer, esteemed at about $121 billion, contending that it was still too low and that it offered lacking duties on the off chance that controllers moved to obstruct an association on antitrust grounds. Under the terms of the offer, Broadcom would pay about $82 an offer in real money and stock.

Assembling the two organizations would make one of the world’s greatest chip creators, whose items would be in a greater part of the world’s cell phones.

The two organizations are relied upon to meet on Wednesday without precedent for months, raising the likelihood that some way or another they can connect their disparities and achieve an assertion.

Until at that point, Broadcom is further forcing its objective. Broadcom’s CEO, Hock Tan, said in an announcement on Tuesday that lessening the quantity of chief seats that his organization was looking for would help give some “coherence” for Qualcomm’s board.

Investors, he included, “have respected our eagerness to accommodate proper congruity on the Qualcomm board and have additionally communicated a want for a conclusive instrument of accomplishing such coherence. Lessening the quantity of candidates we are trying to a basic lion’s share gives definitely that system.”

Qualcomm declined to remark. Offers in the two organizations were brought down in exchanging on Tuesday.

In the meantime, a crusade to unseat some of Qualcomm’s executives — instead of the organization’s whole load up — could be more tasteful to intermediary warning firms like Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, whose voting suggestions can convey critical weight with speculators. The two firms are relied upon to issue their reports on the board challenge in the coming weeks.

Mr. Tan basically flagged that Broadcom would look for less board situates in a meeting on CNBC on Monday.

“In the event that no less than a larger part of our state does not get in on March 6, at that point I figure we will get the message that this arrangement wouldn’t occur,” he said. “We will walk.”